Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-10-27
ALL BY THEMSELVES.
A Few Disappointed Knights OF
Labor Propose to Raise a
Row with Powderly.
Red Cherries Talks Through an
Interpreter Aboutthe Recep-
ton of Crow Overtures.
DISSATISFIED KNIGHTS,

DiSSfIlsflLD hN1GHTs.
The Enemies of Powderly and His Admin.
istration out In a Circular Calling for a
Reorganization Of the Order.
Chicago Telegram: Dissenters from
the action taken at the Minneapolis
convention have declared open war
with the executive board of the
Knights of Labor and have issued
their declaration OF Independence.
On the return from the convention
about thirty-fve delegates, represent
ing about thirteen states, stopped in
Chicago and determined TO bring
about reorganization Of the order.
They elected a provisional committee
of five members, of which Charles H.
Lieb was made secretary. A long
communication was drafted ut Secre.
tary Lieb's office and will be forward.
ed ia circular form to knights of
Labor all over the country. The cir
cular starts out rs follows: Indignant
at the usurpation Of power and gross
violation of the laws of the order by
those in authority, disgusted with
those whose loyalty to the present
ring has been gained by the pickings
they received IA a reward for their ser.
vices, incensed at the fawning syco-
plants who crawl on their knees In
slayish submission to the most cor
rupt, most hypocritical, most auto
cratic and tyrannical clique that has
ever controlled any labor organization,
we therefore affirm our motto that
when bad men combine, the good
must associate, else they will fall, one
by one, an unpitied class in a contemp.
tible struggle" We assert that the
hour has come that as honest men and
women we declare ourselves indepen-
dent of those who have abused the
confidence reposed in them by our
order. They claim that the general
offices have become luxuriant haunts
for men whose chief aim Is TO benefit
self, pecuniary aud otherwise; that
there has been for more than a year a
conspiracy for the purpose of holding
salaried positions in and under the
general assembly; that this conspir-
acy bad used the secret channels and
funds Of the order to manufacture sem
timent In favor Of certain members and
against others; that organizers COM
missions have been refused to mem.
beers known to disagree with the
methods of the ring; that district and
local assemblies have been suspended
or expelled for opposing the policy OF
the consplrstors; that the records OF
the general Office have been fixed,
so az to rule out or admit as the
Gaze might be general assembly rep.
resntatives; that many thousands OF
dollars Of the orders funds have been
illegally expended, frequently against
the earnest protests of honest and
law abiding members; that honest
men devoted to the cause OF labor. have
been made scapegoats of laundering
high officials and driven in disgrace
from the movement; that the efforts
made by assemblies to better their
condition have been strangled by the
ring; that the boycott has been used to
iniure the labor press, union establish.
ments and the products of the Knights
OF Labor aud union labor for the sole
purpose of downing worKingmen
and women who could not be used by
the conspirators; that the constitution
has been altered In an illegal manner;
that measures inimical 10 the order al
large have been railrosded into a
"law;n that a war has been waged b.
the administration ring against trades
unions and trades districts, in spite of
the orders obligation to "extend a